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Living death in medieval French and English literature
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Jane Gilbert |
"Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deat… |
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That the people might live
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Arnold Krupat |
"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois … |
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Political issues in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
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Dedria Bryfonski |
The overwhelming popularity of the Harry Potter books has prompted many people to ask: Why are they so popular among children? In addition, many of those who have probed the Harry Potter books for de… |
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Death in literature
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Robert F. Weir |
This book will show the richness and diversity of death as a subject in a variety of literary genres. Second, it will demonstrate the timelessness of the subject of death in literature, as evidence b… |
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The art of death
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Edwidge Danticat |
Danticat moves outward from the shock of her mother's cancer diagnosis and sifts through her own writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly through works of literature which ci… |
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Death poetry
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Stephanie Buckwalter |
"Explores death poetry, including famous American and European poets and their poems, as well as literary criticism, poetic technique, explication, and prompts for further study"--Provided by publish… |
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Nest. La metafisica de la ausencia
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Gabriella Bianco,Marina Cirinei - fotografia |
Acercarse a un universo poetico en el intento de iluminar y desentrenar los nucloes fundamentales de ese mundo,
ahondar en la experiencia del dolor y de la muerte, como realidad con la cual, en su … |
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When I Came to Die
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Audrey Raden |
1 online resource (xii, 156 pages) |
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Exploding into life
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Dorothea Lynch |
"In 1978, thirty-four-year-old Dorothea Lynch discovered she had breast cancer. In an attempt to gain control of the disease and communicate her experience to others, she asked her longtime companion… |
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William Faulkner's As I lay dying
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Eric F. Oatman |
A guide to reading "As I Lay Dying" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tes… |
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Bereavements
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Richard Lortz |
"Mother Who Lost Son Seeks Son Who Has Lost Mother," read the advertisement in The Village Voice.
Those who replied the curious, the disturbed, the opportunistic were writing to Mrs. Harrington-Sm… |
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As I Lay Dying
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William Faulkner |
Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordan… |
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